Dramatist, Scenarist, Biographer ONE'S relatives are apt to be censorious, and a close one of mine protested to me rather explosively years ago: "When are you going to get out of that drawing-room?" To that generic locale he applied an epithet not generally used in drawing-rooms and which I omit here.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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